"Six months ago, when Paul was asked, 'Is Ace gonna be involved in future concerts?' he said, 'Absolutely not. The past is the past and now is now,'" Frehley recalled, paraphrasing Stanley's statements to Billboard this past spring. "In the last week or two he's saying, 'I wouldn't rule it out,' and then he did another interview where he said, 'There'll probably be some old members coming back as guests for the last tour.' But he's not mentioning any names."

Frehley says those statements amount to a ploy, cleverly designed to excite the fanbase and wring more money out of concert promoters.

"You know, they're testing the waters," he added. "I think they're waiting for promoters to come back and say, 'We'll give you X amount of dollars if Ace is involved ... and Peteris involved.' It's all about money with those guys — and they'll be the first to admit it, especially Gene."

Make no mistake, Frehley is game to play along. The Spaceman has said in the past he sometimes regrets leaving Kiss, but he won't return for cheap.